COVID-19 Is Taking A Brutal Toll On The People Who Process Our Meat
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING The essential workers supplying housebound Americans with beef, pork and poultry during the coronavirus pandemic are getting sick and even dying as the virus spreads through plants and communities. Laborers at poultry and meat processing plants tend to work right alongside one another, at a time when public health experts advise everyone to stay at least six feet apart. “The most proactive thing they can do is really check and make sure people, if they have any symptoms or they’re feeling sick, you send them home with pay.” Noting how physically taxing the work is, he added, “The challenge is you can’t just replace these people.” Oxfam America, Human Rights Watch and other worker groups sent a letter to poultry producers on Thursday saying that the rash of outbreaks calls for immediate protections inside plants. ““Poultry workers are essential workers, now and always, and they deserve these basic protection.” - Worker groups to poultry producers Wherever six feet of separation between workers is not possible, the groups called on the producers to install plastic physical barriers.
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